Porcelain Moon and Pomegranates: A Woman's Trek Through TurkeyDundurn, 2007 - 240 halaman For millennia, the land now called Turkey has been at the crossroads of history. A bridge between Europe and Asia, between West and East, between Christianity and Islam, the peninsula also known as Anatolia, the place where the sun rises, is one of the oldest continually inhabited regions on the planet. In this unique blend of memoir and travel literature, Ãoestün Bilgen-Reinart explores the people, politics, and passions of her native country, whisking the reader on a journey through time, memory, and space. She searches deep into the roots of her own ancestry and uncovers a family secret, breaks taboos in a nation that still takes tradition very seriously, and navigates through dangerous territory that sees her investigating brothels in Ankara, probing honour murders in Sanliurfa, encountering Kurds in the remote southeast, and witnessing the rape of the earth by a gold mining company in Bergama. |
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... land will draw me into itself, absorb me and crush the self that was formed in Manitoba. For more than thirty years, as a Canadian, I secretly grieved for my Turkish self. Now I wear that Turkish self deliberately, like a new skin, but ...
... land rising behind the concrete blocks that fill my neighbourhood. The taxi driver doesn't even notice the sight. The crowds rushing through the congested sidewalks don't seem to pay attention to it, either. Had I not left this country ...
... land through the eyes of an outsider. Ankara, whose name derives from the , -year-old Phrygian word ancyra, meaning “anchor” (odd name for an inland city), is the place of my birth and my childhood. Two thousand years ago the ...
... land, and sky. The crowds, energy, and even disorder of Anatolia drew me like magnets as if this were the real world, while affluent, spacious Canada seemed remote, insulated, and immune. I was frantic to take things back from the ...
... land to be explored on a bike. I protested in vain about wild drivers on congested roads. In May he bought a yellow and two helmets. Willy-nilly, I took my place on the back seat. The motorbike transported us on country roads to ...
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Mam Kubileya Mountain Mother | 33 |
Gilded lcons Wrapped in Fine Cloth | 99 |
Deadly Honzur | 179 |
The Curse Dionysos | 197 |
Memory ls for People | 213 |
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Porcelain Moon and Pomegranates: A Woman's Trek Through Turkey Üstün Bilgen-Reinart Pratinjau terbatas - 2007 |
Porcelain Moon and Pomegranates: A Woman's Trek Through Turkey Üstün Bilgen-Reinart Pratinjau terbatas - 2007 |
Porcelain Moon and Pomegranates: A Woman's Trek Through Turkey Üstün Bilgen-Reinart Pratinjau terbatas - 2007 |